Improvement in compositions for drain-pipes



UNI ED STATES COMPOSITIONS, COATING 0R PLASTIC.

PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS F. BOUDRYE, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGXOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO JULES NIHY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT In COMPOSITIONS FOR DRAlN-PIPES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 146,864, dated January 27, 1814; application filed April 17, 1873.

- Q IJIHQLQLlQQ distilled over in the manufacture of the ordinary illuminating-gas of commerce, such as ammonia, carbonic acid, and sulphureted hydrogen, forming a mixture ot carbonate of lime, hydrosulphate of lime li pe 11113 1 11 1, hydrosulphate of ammonia, and su lphuret of calcium, united in variable proportions, according to the properties and qualities of the coal distilled into gas.

To prepare the compound for its application as a mortar and cement, take a quantity of this refuse calcareous material and reduce to a fine 'iowder; then add suflieient water to maKc it mto a thin paste, and to tlns paste add coarse sand and hair,1 after the manner and in about 0 propor 1011s usually adopted in thcmanufacture of ordinary mortar, the calcareous material being made in this case to supply the place of the slaked lime generally used in the preparation of mortar. The mortar thus made can be applied with advantage to the building of ordinary brick houses, and also as a substitute for the first layer of plaster usually spread on laths in walls and partitions. To prepare the cement amortar composition is made, as already described, without the addition of the hair, and with or without the addition of the s gnl and a small percentage of orflpmmrept is well stirred into the paste during its manufacture, so that the whole may form a compound suitable for binding together oi'large stones or bricks in the erection of buildings requiring considerable strength. v

'For' the manufacture of drain pipes this calcareous refuse material is ground, as before, in o a ne powt er, ant 1s mixed with coarse sand )la ter-ofaris or cement either separa e y or com me w1 h one another, with the addition of suflicient water to make the whole into a thick 1m g to the quality of the pipe to be manufactured. If a pipe be required of no extraordinary strength, about equal parts of the finely-powdered calcareous material and coarse sand are made with water into a thick paste. The compound thus prepared is placed gradually into ordinary drainof ordinary QCEIQ% and the compound thus formed is made into a thick paste by the addition of asnflicient quantity of water, and then pressed into molds for the required sh ape and hardness, as before. When a very superior drain-pipe is to be constructed, about one-half of the ordinary cement employed in this last case is replaced by an equal of-pa-ris.

For general use, it is proposed to pulverize this refuse calcareous material and pack such fine powder into barrels, so that it may be at once ready to be mixed with sand, cement, plaster-of-paris, 830., according .to the strength of the combinations required.

I am aware that no claim can be made to the manufacture of this calcareous material, as it is thewa stc product of most gasfactories; but

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to obtain Letters Patent for, is-

A calcareous compound for the manufacture of pipes, cement, mortar, &.c., consisting essentially of-refuse gas -.linie, 3lgme or mixed with cement, plaster-of- )aris, or sand, Qijhfll used separately or co'mblneil with on her substantially as and for the purposes specifiec FRANCIS FELIX BOUDRYE. V 'itnesses:

SA UEL HERMANN,

Lionel. VAmoAs.

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